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At CBSSM, we perform the basic and applied scientific research that will improve health care policy and practice to benefit patients and their families, health care providers, third-party payers, policy makers, and the general public. In our "Interactive Decision" web feature, we turn a recent research finding into an interactive decision that a patient or policy maker might face. Read, decide, click—and see how your answers compare with our respondents.

Breast cancer patients face complex decisions about their treatment. Sarah Hawley, Reshma Jagsi, and colleagues developed an interactive online tool to help patients understand their treatment options. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, they found that patients using the interactive tool had higher knowledge and felt more informed about options and felt better prepared to make a treatment choice.

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Funding Years: 2016-2019

This project will examine behavioral economic strategies for decreasing the use of low-value clinical services as listed in the Choose Wisely campaign. The proposed intervention, Committing to Choose Wisely (CCW), will ask clinicians to commit to avoid low-value services and provide resources to support adherence to this commitment. The intervention, which extends across two large health systems, will generate quantitative data from clinical automated data and focused medical record review data to examine rates of order before and after the intervention, as well as qualitative data from surveys and semi-structured interviews of both clinicians and patients to determine the effects of the intervention on their decision-making and experiences.

The Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer's disease Study (REVEAL) is a series of clinical trials taking place at U-M's School of Public Health, along with other sites including Harvard University, Howard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. An audio interview with Dr. J. Scott Roberts can be found in the press release.

Laura Sedig and Ray Hutchinson will present on a project to improve parental understanding of randomization and equipoise when deciding whether or not to participate in a pediatric oncology clinical trial after diagnosis. Their intervention will be a graphic and/or multimedia depiction of the concepts of randomization and equipoise given to the parents before or after their consent discussion.

Michele Gornick will present a survey whose purpose is to improve the communication of genomic sequencing results, specifically findings displayed in a genomic sequencing results report prototype. The survey is part of a Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement project, targeted to medical oncologists in the state of Michigan who have an active license and a clinical practice.

07/18/2016

Michael Fetters has been named a 2016 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Social Sciences. He will spend five months in Beijing teaching and leading a joint research project with colleagues at Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC), U-M's partner school in the Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research.

Reshma Jagsi and colleagues recently published an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine regarding the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists. The goal of this program is to promote greater gender equity in academic medicine.